Emily holds many secrets.Her first revealed secret shocks her husband-to-be, Jack Hampton, while they're still in college, and it suddenly changes the shape of their future together in ways Jack could only have dreamed of.Other secrets are more complicated.Jack sees Emily for exactly who she is —beautiful, brilliant, and fiercely independent. She seems to be three moves ahead of everyone around her—including her powerful father, Samuel Briggs, the mastermind of a wo...

In this heartfelt novel about love and destiny, Aaron believes in a world full of possibilities, including the rare possibility that love can occasionally defeat time.His muse—the person he fell in love with from the moment he met her —is Hanna, a Swiss-born natural blonde with an angelic beauty that's clear to everyone but her.Hanna is street smart, practical, and more than a little skeptical that love can last forever. But she decides to try to "win the game" with him.

This novella is written as a personal journal. The story follows a writing teacher's restless search for beauty, love, and the mysterious force the Greeks called Eros.The writer's girlfriend, Miranda, is more than happy to join him. She has her own journal, and her own way of looking at the world. While he is cynical and constantly complaining about what he sees, struggling to make sense of why they came to Greece in the first place, Miranda writes things like, "Ah, rose, your peta...

In this satire of the music industry, David Allington is the son of a politician, a record producer of questionable success, and a man whose life is falling apart like a bad drum track.Assigned to produce an incompetent punk band called The Puks, David finds himself trying to appease record company executives while persuading a punk magazine writer named Tara chance after chance.Filled with enough bad decisions to destroy an entire recording industry, punk singer Robbie Zon...

Josh Martin is a gifted jazz pianist who can sit at a Bösendorfer and follow any musical idea wherever it wants to go. Onstage, he trusts instinct, accident, rhythm, and risk itself.In life, he is far less fluent.He meets Lydia. She is a singer, a muse, a lover, an antagonist, a comic tormentor, and—a test he keeps failing.Together they create a relationship built on musical connection, sexual intensity, arguments no one can win, and mutual exasperation.The ...

Shelby's Time is the kind of novel you suspect will fall apart halfway through. And yet—somewhere between absurdist comedy and ascending confusion—the book begins to cohere.Shelby believes he's from the future, with the barest of proof. It also doesn't seem to help him, or anyone else, even if it's true.He bounces from town to town, job to job, and girl to girl—from Rat Town to Sea Cliff—a town near neither sea nor cliff—until he meets the buoyant Chelsea, a hotel concierge...

In a future where humanity has scientifically conquered disease and physical death, Timshel leaves behind a civilization that has solved nearly every practical problem. Yet one question remains unanswered: What is the true nature of existence?Seeking answers, he journeys into a mysterious realm known as The Beyond, where ordinary assumptions about reality begin to unravel. Joined by two companions, a scientist named Lesam and a woman named Abrann, they each pursue their own path to...

We live in a world that is increasingly characterised as full of risk, danger and threat. Every day a new social issue emerges to assail our sensibilities and consciences. Drawing on the popular Economic Social and Research Council (ESRC) seminar series, this book examines these social issues and anxieties, and the solutions to them, through the concept of moral panic.With a commentary by Charles Critcher and contributions from both well-known and up-and-coming researchers and prac...

Multi-Color Poetry, otherwise known as Colopetry, is a literary art form created by American novelist and singer-songwriter, Gary Marks, where the use of color allows multiple poems to exist simultaneously within a single stand-alone poem. Read the rule of the game below, and you'll understand!

This sensual romance novel is about the life of Stephen Weston, a gifted financial analyst with a breakthrough stock-market timing model.He arrives in Manhattan expecting to negotiate a lucrative promotion, and to persuade Lilly—the woman he loves—to renew a relationship that ended long ago.Eventually, he finds himself caught between two worlds:One is a world of luxury hotels, formal dinner parties, and trips to Paris and London with Lilly by his side.The ot...

In this absurd but tender comedic novella, nineteen-year-old Taylor Morrison lives in a small town where very little happens. He spends his days wondering if life has somehow forgotten to begin. One day he meets Rainy Robinson, a sharp-tongued runaway with a notebook full of secrets and a talent for turning every simple situation into a complicated one.What follows is a hilarious rain-soaked road trip involving gold coins, cheap motels, abandoned dreams, and Uncle Jimmy—a former po...

Can love survive fame? Fame seeks recognition. Love seeks privacy, quiet moments, and a life small enough to feel real.Adam and Jenna fell in love before the world fell in love with her.She started as Adam's roadie, helping him set up for local gigs around San Francisco. From there she became a superstar performing Adam's songs around the world.They try to stay sane and centered inside a system that encourages each of them to become larger than life.Eventual...